Lies about Love

1. You need to find your soulmate 2. Love is Physical 3. Love is a Feeling

Find your Soulmate Plato B.C. Symposium – Seven Speeches on the origin, purpose, and nature of love. Aristophanes speech is most enduring section of the work. May not have been serious!

Platos Symposium...the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears.... He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast.

Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained.

At last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered a way. He said: "Methinks I have a plan which will humble their pride and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist, but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased in numbers; this will have the advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and they shall hop about on a single leg."

He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility.

... so ancient is the desire of one another which is implanted in us, reuniting our original nature, making one of two, and healing the state of man... And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself,...the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and would not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together; yet they could not explain what they desire of one another.

For the intense yearning which each of them has towards the other does not appear to be the desire of lover's intercourse, but of something else which the soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell, and of which she has only a dark and doubtful presentiment.

Find your Soulmate Aristotle ( B.C.) Student of Plato Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Find your Soulmate Shakespeare ( ) Frequently made use of Platonic ideas. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? As You Like It III.v.82 Did my heart ever love until now? Forswear it, sight! For I never saw true beauty till this night. Romeo & Juliet I.v.52-53

Find your Soulmate What if I'd been born fifty years before you In a house on the street where you live? Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike Would I know? And in a wide sea of eyes I see one pair that I recognize... Ben Folds, The Luckiest 2001

The Philosophers and Poets are Wrong! There is no such thing as a soulmate 1 Cor.7:7 You are not incomplete 1 Cor.7:7 Eph.5:25-33; Phil.2:5-8; Ro.5:6-8 There is no such thing as love at first sight Eph.5:25-33; Phil.2:5-8; Ro.5:6-8 You CAN help who you love Love does not happen by accident, it is a DECISION.

Love is Physical 2008 PTC Study Bachelor winners The Bible is Clear on what this is: 1 Cor.6: Tim.2:21-22 Gal.5:19-21Gal.6:7

Love is a Feeling We Fall in and out!Tit.2:3-5 1 Cor.13:4-7 It doesnt matter how you FEEL. It matters what you DO!

What should I do? LOVE GOD LOOK IN THE RIGHT PLACE LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN LOVE THEM – even if it means letting go.